That’s right! We’ve still got new arrivals coming in from the orders we placed at the National Stationery Show in May! It was like Christmas all over again this afternoon when i got to unwrap a bundle of incredible cards from Twig & Fig. These cards are foil stamped on wood veneer- which, if I [...]

after months of hard work i decided that we needed a little fun! here is where i wish we got that bowling ally finished. which by the way we are installing this summer. so if your in the neighborhood give us a call and we will lay down the lanes! ok back to the story, [...]

what a spring/summer this is shaping up to be! to start things off, the may issue of self magizine came out and right there on page 32 is our plantable pillow box! a big thanks goes out to them for featureing us.

so, things have really been hopping this year. we finished up with our 2.2 [...]

back in october we got an order to produce 2,163,000 cards for a promotion for kraft foods. it was embedded with lettuce seeds and then attached to the inside page of a magazine. what was i thinking, how could i get it done, what would it take? looking back to an october post…..
“2,851,200 square inches [...]

so today was a momentous occasion for us! we began the journey of packaging 2,163,000 cards made from handmade plantable paper embedded with lettuce seeds! and here i thought making the paper would be the hard part, try cutting them.

some how we need to figure out how to fit 16 pallets in our mill so [...]

WE DID IT!!!

After tons of hard work and quite a bit of stress we have finally reached the halfway point on our big order! Now it’s time to really push the envelope and see if we can make local handmade paper history! Only 7 weeks remain with just over 37,000 sheets to go. The pressure’s [...]

so at the end of each week they seem to get a bit loopy, here is there take on safty in the work place.

they are wearing the osha approved safty gogles! looks good to me.
hope you had a great turkey weekend (no not a day, really, come on, its a weekend!!)

on friday those of us that were here took a little break to wish samantha a happy workaversary! she has been with us for 6 years, and how she has climed up that ladder!
she started out as a wee little coucher and started pulling her own sheets just months afer being hired. it was not [...]

well it has been a wild ride these past few weeks, and now its down to business. put away the sissors, put down the glue, turn off the power tools and get to making paper…and a lot of it!

while some feel like they could work behind the counters at joann fabrics, others can teach an [...]

 
2,851,200 square inches upholstery foam +
1,232,000 square inches cardboard +
1,436,400 square inches pellon +
155,232 square inches felt +
92,400 square inches plywood +
200 pounds lettuce seed +
18,750 pounds recycled fiber +
countless screws, nails, bottles of glue, and trips to the hardware store =
 
2,000,000 plantable peices
quite possibly the largest order in plantable paper history
 
booyaw acheived.